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We are also talking about gamers here. How many would give up gta6 just to take a stand?

My eyes were opened to gamers with Elite Dangerous. During the early access, FD told us a single player off line was coming. Then about week before the full release, they said “nah, cant make it work. No refunds!”. This was blatant false advertising. Worse, they then said that you didnt pay for the game, you paid for early access. The game was just a gift…

Offline single players werent happy, as you can imagine. And took to the forums… and thats when the real shit started. Nothing but abuse from happy to be always online people. Mods started deleting threads talking about the refunds. It ended up that they couldnt deny it anymore, so shoved it into one single thread. Which maxed out and had to be closed and another started, then another. All the while gamers were abusing the fuck out of people who wanted refunds, and the mods would perma ban any refunder who said something back.

The fucking hero of this story? The credit card companies. All the refunders eventually contacted their CC companies as well as companies like Paypal. They all took one look at what was going on, and mass refunded everyone who asked for it without dragging it out. That when I knew what gamers really were. They were a community of people who enjoyed a hobby, they were factions who would abuse the ever living fuck out of another for millionaires and private companies. Its one thing to say “I dont care about being always online” but to, in some cases, brutally attack people who were conned into paying for an offline mode that was never coming was bullshit. I now severely judge anyone who plays that game. If I met someone in real life who played that game, I might punch fuck out of them. Thats how strongly I feel about the abuse I saw happening. And it was like a fucking decade ago.

Gamers are the most short sighted fucking morons on the planet. They complain endlessly, yet praise absolute dogshit when they dont care. Never once thinking “Maybe if we werent all constantly at each others throats, we wouldnt be getting abused by companies like EA, UBI, Sony and whoever else.”. I mean, they need us! Why the fuck are we all putting up with their shit???


Or “We’ve finally decided to listen to fans. We’re releasing a new Splinter Cell…addon for an always online single player game that no one likes…"

Fans: “We get to play as Sam Fisher again? Awesome!”

UBI:


All you had to do was make good and fun games. How do you fuck THAT up??? Especially when you were already doing it.

And not to mention…

“Hey guys, what can we make that people really want?”

“I hear people all the time over the last decade asking for a new Splinter Cell game.”

“Yeah, ok, Brad. We’ll call that plan B… Every year with this asshole. Does anyone have any REAL ideas???”

Because fuck gamers, right, Ubi? Expedition 33 showed the world what current games makers can do when pricks in suits arent around to muddy the waters. The quicker UBI folds, and all that talent leaves to make something that they actually want to make the better.


Moving homes and having no landline Internet for a while and not being able to most install most of my Steam games on my desktop gaming PC because mobile Internet is slow and expensive so installing a big game literally costs money. With GOG I just downloaded the offline installer at work into a USB Flash Disk and then installed it on my desktop at home.

You can do that with steam. Just needs steam to check the files and done.


Kinda depends on what ending is canon. But I guess you could resurrect him by accident. Some rival corp, looking to find the secrets of Soulkiller resurrects his engram. The information wanted, is wrapped up in Silverhand himself. From there you could either go, nerd smuggles Johnny out and its a cat and mouse game with all the corps trying to find the soulkiller code, and Johnny. Or you could insert Johnny into the city, working behind the scenes to take down all the corps. And you, as some random, is who he chooses to give assignments to in order to take them down.

Maybe If I give it more thought, but off the top of my head, thats what I came up with. So bringing him back is totally doable without feeling contrived.


lol, says the fart sniffer looking down his nose at people for using windows. Dont worry, little incel. Some day you’ll wake up, realise using linux doesnt make you better than anyone else and then, and only then, you’ll be able to get a woman to touch you. Until then, you just keep on dodging those showers like a frog does cars.


You do realise that Im talking about YOU doing that, right? This me giving it BACK to you. And oh look, none of you like it. Funny how that works, aint it? Now, why dont you “fuck all the way off”.


The anger isnt at OS choice, its at snobs, trying to make other people feel small for their OS choice. Cant you read?



I dont give a fuck where I am, you start looking down your nose at people, Im gonna fucking say something. Snobby twats deserve every slap they get. As for using linux, use whatever works for you. Just dont start treating other people like shit just because they dont do the same thing you do. “I dont understand people who still use windows…” Cool, no one gives a fuck what you do or dont understand. I dont understand why you piss about with different linux distros, but here we are, and you dont give a fuck that I think that, right? And nor should you. You should just go about your day. Which is why I dont spend my time in windows forums moaning about linux users being snobs. I just get on with my day. And you lot should too. I know the console wars are over now, but fucks sake, lets not start PC vs linux wars now.


Perfectly. I have no issues. And its not really a hassle to click a button…


I cant lie, those Microsoft tech support “have you tried rebooting” gits are the worst. But outside of that, even on Reddit, you get actual help. With linux, I see an ocean of “what a fucking newb” type shit. Even in here, everyone sucking their own cock because they dont use windows anymore. And if you do, well, you must be a pleb. Like people cant just use what works for them, and leave it at that.

And whats funny, is that everyone using linux is still having issues. They say its amazing, then harp on about not being able to play games and the solution is more often than not “have you tried installing this other distro???” Which is about as helpful as “have you tried turning it off and on again?”.

Everyone uses whatever works for them. Windows, MacOS, linux, whatever. And that should be fine. Instead, its become some kind of dog shit console war. PC users looking down their noses at console users, console users looking down their nose at mobile users, ISO users looking down their nose at Android users, Android users looking down their nose at IOS users, linux users looking down their nose anyone that isnt using linux. And even then, “Why you still using Mint, mate? Dont you know its better to use OSpop for gaming???” Its this never ending hole of cunts all shitting all over everyone else. If only we could just enjoy what we are doing and shut the fuck up.


Yes, please do. No one cares that you use linux. Its not a personality trait, and it doenst make you “cool”.


Never had any of these problems on windows. I kinda wonder what it is that you are all doing that you having such problems?

https://www.grc.com/incontrol.htm <<<<< stops updates, unless you decide you want them.

https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat <<<<< blocks telemetry and gets ride of all the useless dogshit.


Ive been utterly sick of first person shooters for over 20 years. Any deviation from that is a win.


Even if there was, would you buy it? Just looking at everything the company is currently doing to destroy the brand, should be enough to turn anyone off. Even if you are a diehard of Halo or Gears or Fallout etc, you can play then on, apparently, anything else.

I think back to the 360 days, all the fun, the friends I made, the games I played, and its heart breaking seeing what its been turned into by this gaggle of cave brained cunts who seek profits over fun.


I just want better games, that arent focused on turned me into a cash generator for piece of shit companies. I just want to have fun again.


Making good games that arent pay to win trash will do that too, ya know…



Anyone who bought this game, is a moron. No ifs, no ands, no buts. Randy is a fucking prick, and made no secret of his feelings towards gamers right before the game came out. No one should have spent a single penny on this dogshit.


Theres an argument to be had about AI generated cheese pizza, and large pieces of plastic being child shaped. Ive always been of the opinion that its fucking gross, but if it was to save even one child, it would be worth it.

Yeah, its morally icky. But Ill take icky morals, over actual hurt children. The government where I am disagrees, and has made both of these things illegal. I understand why, I just cant help but wonder if having access to these things could stop actual children being hurt? Like if theres a market flooded with AI generated pictures, it might, at some point, drown the market for actual pictures. Theres always going to be pure evil in the world, but if we can get the numbers down. Surely it has to be worth a try?



We never left it, its just not been getting as much traction. It also pivoted, to “Video games cause sexual violence towards women”. And yes, GTA was the main culprit as it always has been.


So she didnt have the correct documents? Failing to see how “I dont want to pay for that, cos its expensive” is anyone elses fault but her own. Arrived in 2021 as a tourist, married someone that same year, got a divorce a year later, then applied for an I360, we assume on the grounds she got up the duff.

“When it came time to renew both parts of the combo card, Shaw paid to have the work permit renewed, but didn’t renew the travel permit “because she didn’t have any plans for travel at that time and it’s expensive,” Thorward said.”

Followed by:

“In June, Shaw received confirmation of her work permit renewal, but mistakenly believed it also extended her travel authorization – a “minor administrative paperwork error” – according to her lawyer.”

So, she new she needed both. Got one. Then when she got caught, and started talking a lot of shit about “I didnt know”.

The only thing in here thats relevant, is that shes not a dangerous criminal. The rest… Kinda comes across as your typical chancer. Go to US, marry some random dude, get up the duff, divorce dude, get greencard because of the kid, profit.

Honestly, fuck her. She knew the rules, they knew shes didnt have the right permits, and did it anyway. And now shes finding out that uncle Sam aint fucking around anymore. Which is fucking bizarre when you consider how much coverage the unhinged ICE etc have been getting.